1. The March issue of Surfing Life magazine includes a story called ‘Poetry Night with Mermaid Killer’. Written by Nathan Myers, it contains a pretty shocking description of Indigenous surfer Otis Carey.

8. On Wednesday, Surfing Life issued a statement on their website apologising for the story.

They say they originally read the “offending term as a jibe at the stereotypical surfer - and failed to see the racist connotations.”

They add that editor Wade Davis is of African and Indigenous heritage, and despite being sensitive to racism, is “devastated” that a “misread” allowed such a term to be published.

Interestingly, they repeatedly use the singular “term” in their apology, presumably referring to the use of the word “apeish” - apparently still missing the offensiveness in the assumption that Carey’s intelligence would be at “Cro-Magnon” levels.

9. While Carey’s family accepted the apology, they also asked Surfing Life to refrain from contacting him in the future. Many commenters on Twitter remained unimpressed with the apology.

Ashamed @SurfingLife be constructive with your apology to #OtisCarey & support oz surfers long term

— gscathcart (@sartrego)

@IndigenousX the 𠇊pology” was interesting.. "we are not racist we have a black editor from Africa, on staff".

— peter anderson (@pj_and)

Wade Davis just took the whole "some of my best friends are black" excuse to another level." Too bad his friends aren't better editors.

15.He describes himself: “I’m Aboriginal. Married to my best friend and love of my life, her name is Renee, she’s an incredible human.”

16. “I have a two year old son, his name is Beige, he’s also an incredible human.”

17.He adds, “I like to make dull things colourful. I like English breakfast tea of a morning and of an evening. I like getting tattooed. I like to get up before the sun rises. I like to like a lot of things, usually everything.”